pick your favorite wes anderson film!

Rushmore, Tenenbaums, Darjeeling - in that order

Then FMF.

Tenenbaums, saddest of all of them....

bottle rocket, fox, or rushmore

I will punch anyone who votes for Hotel Chevalier.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, April 5, 2010 2:57 AM (14 hours ago)

So much this. Utter dogshit of the worst kind. Ruined La Portman for me too.

And fuck a Sarstedt too.

hotel chevalier was shown with 'darjeeling ltd' in the uk and it's p hard to see it as a separate entity. don't see how it's worse than the main feature, and given that is has natalie portman's arse in it, i'm minded to say it's better.

fuck this guy

Rushmore's a better movie but I voted for Bottle Rocket, Owen Wilson as Dignan is classic, he never topped that character. I liked Tenenbaums at the time but seeing it more recently I'm pretty indifferent, hated or haven't seen everything since then, seems like this guy peaked and then burned out so quickly.

thread brings out the haters.

Rushmore is still his best. Life Aquatic is a real mess but for some reason I respond to it.

voted Fox but on second thought its probably a tie between that Tenenbaums, and Darjeeling.

never understood the love for Bottle Rocket

it's funnie

well, that's true. (that line is v. funny btw: "these are o.r. scrubs." "o.r. they?") for one thing, comedy doesn't equal jokes. i think it's a really funny movie.

― by another name (amateurist), Monday, April 5, 2010 9:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's like you didn't understand my post at all.

Voted Fox, but I really liked Tenenbaums when it came out. Rest of his stuff is basically dreck.

I'm pretty stoked actually. I picked up Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel for my kid the other day and it had a coupon in it for $2 off of the fox movie.

Pick your favorite Wes Anderson soundtrack would be fun though.

Last time I saw Tenenbaums, which I do love, I found myself getting angry at the sequence of the falcon wheeling over the neighborhood as Nico's 'These Days' plays. So easy. Too damn easy.

reading too easy, too damn easy in owen wilson's voice as he watches a falcon fly away to nico

wildcat. . . pow

voted for Tenebaums for stuff like this, and the friscalating dusklight

Yeah Tenenbaums is like a whole movie of easter eggs really. Still haven't seen Darjeeling (scared of suck). Super want to see Fox.

"I picked up Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel for my kid the other day"

I was kind of in the camp of Fantastic Mr Fox being inappropriate or not particularly kind offering for children but this sentence has now evicted me from that camp!

Fantastic Mr. Fox was a wonderful surprise, especially after the total suckage of Darjeeling and The Life Aquatic

Darjeeling is awesome, my favorite since RT. Still haven't watched Fox but I've heard great things...

tenenbaums was like an ad spot for " quirk "

/not for me

rushmore.

there's nothing in Fox that's remotely unfit for children...? why would there be?

uh wtf? the harcore orgy btwn badger, fox and the three farmers?

Darjeeling is awesome, my favorite since RT

there is one film between these two. lol.

wait i'm thinking of something else n/m

voted darjeeling though royal is probably better, i just liked the colors in darjeeling more.

hotel chevalier was shown with 'darjeeling ltd' in the uk

I can't conceive of them as separate, either.

where was it NOT shown w/Darjeeling Ltd? Kinda ridiculous to consider a separate thing at all really

They were shown together in the US too--at least at the theater I went to.

i think it wasn't shown with chevalier originally, chevalier was only released on Itunes. then they appended it to the film at the beginning after a month or something. might be wrong.

Surprising to me, at least judging by talk itt so far, Darjeeling is more popular than Aquatic. I guess I should nflix it.

Aquatic is kinda too much of a retread of Tenenbaums for me, with a lot of nautical-themed wallpaper thrown over it. And there are some weird lapses in tone, primarily the hijacking. Darjeeling Ltd is smaller in scope and feels more minimal/subtle with better characters/actors who basically follow a standard travelogue/Odyssey-type plot. And it captures the relatively oblivious-tourist experience of India very well imho.

"Last time I saw Tenenbaums, which I do love, I found myself getting angry at the sequence of the falcon wheeling over the neighborhood as Nico's 'These Days' plays. So easy. Too damn easy."

they play hey jude over that scene, actually, but you're right, it did seem very obvious. the song that actually has these days over it is awesome, though.

I voted Life Aquatic and really wish I will see it again a second time when someone wants to watch it with me :p

You have to be in the right mood for this one

Many people may have seen it once and disliked it because it is so long. Also the dissenters may have felt the film was too typical of Wes Anderson. Kind of makes me wish this movie came out first. Darjeeling would also fall into the category of "this is so typical of Wes Anderson" but maybe the dissenters had already stopped watching his melodramatic films all together and the "this is so typical" argument got old by the time this movie came out; furthermore Darjeeling was very much under the radar when it was released

xp. eg. Shakey comparing Aquatic to Tenebaums... had they been released in a different order...

I was surprised how much I liked Darjeeling Ltd, esp. after the relatively disappointing Life Aquatic.

xppp

"And there are some weird lapses in tone, primarily the hijacking" - Shakey

-the pirate stuff? that was so LOL for being WTF and COOL. happily hijacked the tone for me

primarily the hijacking

OMG nuh-uh.

The only thing that was disappointing about Life Aquatic for me was the animation.

yeah the animation didn't work so well for me either.

voted rushmore, but bottle rocket is the sentimental favorite. geez now i feel like i sold myself out by voting for rushmore. i used to watch bottle rocket like 2-3 times a week for a year.

is that a joke

well, that's true. (that line is v. funny btw: "these are o.r. scrubs." "o.r. they?") for one thing, comedy doesn't equal jokes. i think it's a really funny movie.
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, April 5, 2010 9:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It's like you didn't understand my post at all.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, April 5, 2010 12:19 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

it's very possible. did i miss a vein of sarcasm or irony?

i agree that royal tenenbaums (and life aquatic) really overdo(es) it with the pop-song cues. it's like, give me a breather between all the lyrical moments, dude. also maybe this is my own problem but i sort of cringe at emo monochrome + elliott smith suicide moment.

and not cringe in the sense of being grossed out by the bloodshed (which is gross), just being embarrassed by how this super-emo segment is kind of dropped into the film. in general i feel like anderson is trying to push me around emotionally a lot in tenenbaums and aquatic, and not so much in the other films.

not so much in darjeeling? seriously?

maybe i just tuned that out. there is a lot of would-be emotional stuff in the flashback and in the relationship w/ the mother, i s'pose.

yeah the kinks song in Darjeeling when they were walking to the funeral (in slo mo of course) made me scream

Barbie is definitely better than this, but this is a fine Wes Anderson film

Barbie is more unique than this, I wouldn't say better.

My gosh -- I remember reading this and think it will be my favorite: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/movies/wes-anderson-roald-dahl-wonderful-story-henry-sugar.html

I just learned that Mason Gamble, who played Dirk in "Rushmore" (and "Dennis the Menace"), used to live a few blocks from me. I guess he gave up acting a while ago and started work on an environmental science PhD at UCLA. Good for him.

i like that his eureka moment was to have narration for a fairy tale. he must have been watching lemony snicket on netflix at the time.

unwatchable because of the narration. like listening to someone else's audiobook at 1.75x.

i finished it because it's only 30 minutes but i don't think i could have lasted an hour.

I haven't seen any of them since Fantastic Mr. Fox and I hated Life Aquatic, which of the recent ones is worth trying?

Grand Budapest Hotel is my fav but if you hate Life Aquatic it might not bode well

Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest are my favorites.

Moonrise, Grand Budapest, and Asteroid City are all great. Skip French Dispatch.

Astreroid City is so good
I love Grand Budapest Hotel too

I like all the post-Fox live-actions but Moonrise is the one to go with

Grand Budapest Hotel is my fav but if you hate Life Aquatic it might not bode well

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, February 10, 2024 8:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I dislike Life Aquatic, love Grand Budapest Hotel.

Another GBH vote here